Exodus 1 (NET)

Exodus 1:1¹These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt—each man with his household entered with Jacob:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 2:1-2Gen 46:8-26Gen 35:23-261 Chr 12:23-40Exod 6:14-16Gen 29:31-30:21Gen 35:18Gen 49:3-27Rev 7:4-81 Chr 27:16-22

Exodus 1:2²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 35:22

Exodus 1:3³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 28:20Gen 35:23

Exodus 1:4⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Exodus 1:5⁵All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:22Gen 46:26-27Judg 8:30Exod 1:20

Exodus 1:6⁶and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 50:26Acts 7:14-16Gen 50:24

Exodus 1:7⁷The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 46:3Deut 26:5Gen 1:28Gen 35:11Gen 47:27Gen 9:1Deut 10:22Gen 12:2Gen 28:3-4Gen 48:4

Exodus 1:8⁸Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:18Eccl 2:18-19Eccl 9:15

Exodus 1:9⁹He said to his people, “Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:24-25Eccl 4:4Jas 3:14-16Num 22:4-5Prov 14:28Prov 27:4Titus 3:3Jas 4:5Job 5:2

Exodus 1:10¹⁰Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:19Ps 83:3-4Prov 1:11Ps 105:25Ps 10:21 Cor 3:18-20Acts 23:12Jas 3:15-18Job 5:13Num 22:6

Exodus 1:11¹¹So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:13Exod 2:11Exod 3:7Gen 47:11Deut 26:6Ps 81:61 Kgs 9:192 Chr 8:4Exod 6:6-7Num 20:15

Exodus 1:12¹²But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:24Exod 1:9Rom 8:28Acts 5:28-33Acts 4:2-4John 12:19

Exodus 1:13¹³and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:20

Exodus 1:14¹⁴They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:19Num 20:15Exod 2:23Exod 6:9Acts 7:34Isa 58:6Ps 81:6Deut 26:6Deut 4:20Exod 1:13

Exodus 1:15¹⁵The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Exodus 1:16¹⁶“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 1:22Matt 21:38

Exodus 1:17¹⁷But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:29Exod 1:21Eccl 12:13Luke 12:5Matt 10:28Acts 4:18-20Dan 3:16-18Dan 6:13Prov 16:6Eccl 8:12

Exodus 1:18¹⁸Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 8:42 Sam 13:28

Exodus 1:19¹⁹The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women—for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 17:19-20Josh 2:4-241 Sam 21:2

Exodus 1:20²⁰So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 8:12Isa 3:10Prov 11:18Exod 1:12Heb 6:10Ps 111:5Exod 1:7Luke 1:50Matt 10:42Matt 25:40

Exodus 1:21²¹And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:381 Sam 2:35Ps 37:32 Sam 7:27-29Eccl 8:121 Kgs 2:241 Sam 25:282 Sam 7:11-13Ps 127:1Jer 35:2

Exodus 1:22²²Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:19Prov 1:16Exod 1:16Prov 4:16Ps 105:25Rev 16:4-6Exod 7:19-21Gen 41:1Prov 27:4